Dr. Doft | ELLE December 2020
WHEN LEAH,* a 35-year-old nurse in New York, found her days filled with video chats during the pandemic, she became fixated on the soft swell of fat under her chin. “I’ve had this since I was a teenager, but now I see it all the time,” she says. At her tipping point, she found Melissa Doft, MD, a plastic surgeon in Manhattan who, a few weeks later, made two small needle punctures in the crease under Leah’s chin and removed excess fat with liposuction.